Dropped Little Dude off at school and caught a teaser for the news....
The Skunk Squad. It's not really NEW news...but, then again, we're talking Medium Media here.
Still, I like the idea.
An American policeman has started ordering bulk shipments of his Skunkshot repellent to keep prostitutes, drug dealers and homeless people out of abandoned buildings.The repellent makes the interior of the premises very unpleasant for several weeks.
It was likely other orders would now come from people wanting to clear properties of squatters and other unwanted residents....
....the latest use for his little stinker came about when Los Angeles sheriff's deputy Scott Gage bought a few stink bombs in a novelty store to make some of the squats unpleasant.
He knew it was promising when his wife opened the parcel, and inadvertently contaminated his whole garage with the synthetic gel that comes in a small 200g tube.
The policeman decided to try the repellent in an abandoned, burned-out motel where there had been a series of 36 arrests of street people - some of them several times.
Three hours later, the police returned and found the dilapidated motel empty, a rare sight at the illicit flophouse. The deputies went back again two hours later, and it was still evacuated - something that fences, gates barbed wire and multiple arrests failed to achieve.
And PETA hasn't raised a stink over this yet?
Before we moved last year, our neighborhood was often the mating grounds for a fairly sizable group of horny skunks.....or so we thought. Maybe it was only the one house down the street - the one with the plywood windows - all along.
Posted by DaGoddess at February 13, 2004 10:00 AMtoooo funny, Ma Petite Cherie.
Posted by: dragonfly jenny at February 13, 2004 10:20 AMThat's ingenuity! Bravo!
Posted by: GrumpyBunny at February 13, 2004 11:39 AMAnd the best reason of all for purchasing it (from the article):
"You know those push-down soap dispensers? Well, allegedly someone put some of the product in one of those in the men's bathroom."
If they ban skunk juice, I have a dog that I would be more than willing to lend out. She runs herself out of the room...
Posted by: seadog318 at February 13, 2004 05:19 PMI like it...a pup I know got sprayed recently. It's a great way to empty a room and harmless aside from the social factors...
Posted by: Moxie at February 14, 2004 02:08 AMWhere do these people go? Isn't this just an out of site out of mind answer to the problem that relocates the people somewhere else?
Posted by: Fred Boness at February 14, 2004 10:23 AMWe want to purchase Skunk Juice
where can we buy it